A School For Twiiter?
This is too funny. Democracy For America is having an online night school to teach progressives how to use Twitter.
DFA Night School is back to help you master the emerging art of Twitter. This new medium is rising faster than any other social networking platform, but is it destined to be overloaded with celebrity gossip and trivia or will it become a revolutionary tool for social change? We will explore it's strengths and limitations as we work to separate the hype from Reality on using Twitter to organizing online.
Let me save you the time. Say something interesting, be funny and have useful links. That is the best way to use Twitter. Twitter.com/pushingrope is an offshoot of the blog. Most of the successful progressives on Twitter are bloggers. We all tweet each other back and forth. Don't worry about being part of the cool kids groups. Just be interesting and humorous. Don't just regurgitate information or post incoherent nonsense (see Atrios.) Be original.
Labels: democracy for america, twiiter
posted by Michael Hussey @ 2:42 PM
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2 Comments:
Yet Atrios has over 4000 followers because he's Duncan Fucking Black. And some of the most uninteresting twitterers have massive followings. Why? Who knows. Only thing I can figure is that these people follow everybody they find on twitter, and half of those people follow back.
Getting retweeted by people with big followings doesn't seem to help much, either. I got RT'ed by Kos and I don't think it netted me a follower.
I did end up having a civil conversation with Erick Erickson once over twitter. That was odd.
Did Erickson tell you when he is goi ng to start the dish detergent revolution?
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